Aleix Ruiz Falqués es licenciado en Filología clásica por la Univer- sidad de Barcelona; máster en sánscrito por la Universidad de Pune, India; doctor en Estudios del Sur de Asia por la Universidad de Cam- bridge. Es profesor de lengua pali en la Shan State Buddhist Univer- sity, Myanmar, y en la Universidad de Barcelona. Ha traducido del pali el Mahaparinibbanasutta con el comentario de Buddhaghosa, y la antología En palabras del Buddha.
Aleix Ruiz-Falqués teaches graduate courses in Pali language and literature in Taunggyi, Myanmar. Aleix completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Eivind Kahrs. His research focuses on traditional grammar and scholasticism in Pali, particularly in Myanmar. More broadly, he is interested in ancient Indian literature (kavya) and philosophy or knowledge systems (sastra). After completing his PhD in 2015, Aleix worked for two years on Pali manuscripts in Thailand, and he spent one year doing independent research in India. In 2018, he moved to the Shan State in Myanmar, where his long-term project is to teach and learn the Pali and Burmese languages and literature in a traditional monastic setting. One of his long-term goals is to reveal and demystify the treasures of the Pali medieval tradition that explain how we still possess the ancient words of the Buddha today.